The interview at Talk of Alabama was a REAL conversation booster as Javante Ingram put her magic interviewing skills out there to get the Angel writer story and helped me completely forget that I was on camera. This was a real conversation!

Sometimes I get so involved with my characters and the angels who are all around them that I almost get used to them. It was so encouraging to have someone asking sincere and conversational questions about COUNTENANCE and the Readers Favorite Silver Award. I came home with renewed excitement about this upcoming award ceremony! I hope you will be able to get the same pleasure when you view this little video of the interview.

Ms. Ingram, while giving me a lot of space to describe the world of the Angel writer, focused on COUNTENANCE and the Silver Award at Readers’ Favorite. I never dreamed, when I submitted the book for a review and listing at Readers’ Favorite, that COUNTENANCE would receive an award. I still get butterflies when I think of it. The acknowledgment stimulates and encourages me to keep on writing.

I hope you all are enjoying the Facebook ‘shopping’ for appropriate apparel to wear to the awards dinner in Miami. I appreciate each and every member of the Angel Pack. Along with all of the encouragement I get from events like Talk of Alabama, knowing that I have you all in my ‘tribe’, encouraging me every day as we go along with new stories.

Thank you and please feel free to tell your friends about the Angel Pack and invite them the check out the chance to join our ‘tribe.”

Over 650 winners and finalists in over 120 categories are featured on the 2016 Award Contest Winners page of the Readers’ Favorite website.

You can learn more about Readers’ Favorites at their website (http://readersfavorite.com), but I am impressed that this is a group of authors for authors. The staff and many of the reviewers are authors and have been through the ropes of publication. They respect and support authors who self-publish and those who prefer to work with publishers. There are forums for authors, articles and resources to help and encourage everyone.

I’m going to be proud as anything to be acknowledged and to be able to ‘walk the stage’ in Miami to receive the award at the Banquet where over 300 authors and guests will be enjoying the speakers and presentations.

A friend is flying to Miami with me to make the trip even more fun. If you and I are friends on Facebook, you know we’ve been having some fun about what I should wear to the banquet!

So many wonderful things are happening for COUNTENANCE this fall — becoming a wonderful ending to a special year in my life and my writing.

The recognition of being included in book signing events here at home and in Ireland, being awarded this Silver medal and receiving all of the encouragement from readers stimulates my inspiration for more writing. I wans to stress over and over how much I appreciate your reviews. A little thing like a review on Amazon becomes a HUGE boost in Amazon’s participation in marketing… participation that lets me apply time and energy to writing more stories.

I appreciate the Angel Pack and all the encouragement there. If you know others who would like to be in contact and join the Angel Pack, please let them know about it and please let them know how much their reviews help me.